There were a number of new features announced for Availability Groups in SQL Server 2016 at Microsoft Ignite 2015 this week. Which of these features do you think will have the biggest impact to the feature.

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I totally agree the major thing there is Standard Edition. Availability Groups was a major driver to enterprise edition especially since the RAM limit was increased to 128GB and Buffer Pool Extension up to 512GB was allowed for standard (ram limit being a big reason to jump)

With this you can do so much with standard it is great. Wondering what else might trickle down to standard.

Personally, I think Standard Edition support will have the biggest impact. It opens up Availability Groups to a much wider audience.

Agreed. Suddenly native SQL high availability is doable for the SMB. Even larger Enterprises can take advantage of this with their smaller workloads (things that can't be put on the primary cluster for whatever reason).